[With apologies - sent this to the NPS list by mistake first] Which brings me to a question which has long puzzled me: when you have a pipes bag using an entire goat/sheep/dog/wo'evva, with no seams, just the holes at the ends of arms and legs and things, how do you get the animal out through said quite small holes without spoiling the skin? And I do realise one answer is "make sure it's dead first," it's the next stage I'm concerned about. Richard. P.S. A friend tells me that the USA market was offered, specially for Burns Night, a humane Haggis killer. Francis Wood wrote: On 28 Jan 2010, at 18:25, Dave S wrote:
the wind blows hard enough to turn dogs inside out Enthusiasts of the zaqq (Maltese bagpipes) should take note: The bag was traditionally made of (preferably) dogskin, but goat- and calfskin w ere also used; there are ethnographic reports that skins of large tomcats also s erved. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
